Best Asian Market in Seattle · Seattle, WA
Uwajimaya has been the Pacific Northwest's great Asian marketplace since 1928, when Fujimatsu Moriguchi began selling housemade fishcakes from a truck. Today its Chinatown-International District flagship is a destination in its own right — tens of thousands of Asian groceries, a seafood counter, a food court, and the Kinokuniya bookstore under one roof.
Four generations of the Moriguchi family have built it into a Seattle landmark and cultural anchor — the 2026 Centurion Award winner for Best Market.
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Family-owned Asian grocery founded by Fujimatsu Moriguchi in 1928, grown from a truck selling fishcakes into a Chinatown-International District landmark.
Yes — Uwajimaya is the 2026 Centurion Award winner for Best Asian Market in Seattle, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best Asian market in Seattle for 2026 for nearly a century of the Moriguchi family's grocery, from a single truck to a Chinatown-International District anchor.
Uwajimaya is in Seattle, WA.
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